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The 6-Point Divisor Plan is an Australian horse racing staking plan from 1989, and the thing that keeps it survivable is not the arithmetic — it is the safety brake. You run into four losers in a r...
Weight ratings or speed ratings? Philip Roy tested both on Australian horse racing form, three months at the Sydney tracks, and one of them finished a long way in front. Writing in Practical Puntin...
In Australian horse racing, 99 per cent of punters fail to make money over a 12-month period — and exotic betting is where they lose fastest. Don Scott, a professional punter who spent the sixties ...
There is no short cut in Australian horse racing, and Don Scott is the proof: he worked 12 to 14 hours a day, seven days a week, at form study. Practical Punting's Brian Blackwell interviewed him i...
In Australian horse racing, most punters bet with bookmakers all their lives without ever learning how a bookie makes his book, and it is hard to beat a man at a job you cannot describe. Statsman, ...
In Australian horse racing, backing three horses in a race dramatically shortens the odds you are really betting — the board price is not your price. Philip Roy answered a reader who wanted to d...
Favourites win around 30 per cent of races and lose the other 70 — which is why betting every favourite in Australian horse racing grinds you down. A writer going by Mr Money took that apart for Pr...
You can back winners all year in Australian horse racing and still finish the year behind — that is a staking problem, not a selection problem. Philip Roy wrote about it for Practical Punting in Ma...
Framing your own betting market in Australian horse racing means putting a price on a horse yourself — estimating its percentage chance, just as a bookmaker does. Denton Jardine wrote this one for ...
A bookmaker's price is only an opinion — which is where framing your own betting market in Australian horse racing starts. Denton Jardine wrote this one for Practical Punting in August 1995, and he...
Southeast Queensland's big wet has forced the cancellation of the Doomben meeting on Wednesday.Brisbane Racing Club course manager Bill Shuck said Queensland Racing Limited stewards made the right ...
Brian Johnston, co-trainer of Grand National Steeplechase winner Pentiffic, has lashed out at the violence-prone anti-jumps protesters who invaded Betfair Park on Sunday. He branded them an 'absolu...
Future racing is in doubt at Benalla after yet another meeting there had to be abandoned on Tuesday. A deep hole was discovered on the outside of the home straight as runners made their way to the ...
Racing Queensland stewards have made an early call to abandon the Doomben meeting on Wednesday.The decision to call off the seven-event program followed a deluge of rain in the past seven days.Doom...
Danny Nikolic has been asked to front Racing Victoria stewards on Friday week for the continued inquiry into 10 of his rides after he refused a request to meet them before Wednesday's Sandown meeti...
Doomben 10,000 prospect Apache Cat may be helped by Brisbane's waterlogged week...With Doomben rated heavy and with constant rain continuing on Wednesday morning, form analysts are saying that Apac...
He didn't beat much in the Summer Cup at Rosehill on Boxing Day but import Le Roi did it in style. He's improving with every run for trainer Tony McEvoy. He says Le Roi will now return to Adelaide ...
Jockey Danny Nikolic fronts Racing Victoria stewards next Thursday to answer a charge of contacting a professional punter during a January race meeting. Stewards quizzed Nikolic on Tuesday after be...